Meade DSI camera for webcasting?

[thestarman]

I am looking for comments from anyone who has used a Meade DSI camera to webcast onto the internet. I do occassional webcasting (the Moon mainly) using a Phillips webcam and that works well.

I would like to go to fainter objects (Orion nebula / Omega Centauri / minor planet flyby). The Meade site says that the DSI camera can be used in a similiar way. Does anyone have experience in doing this.

Thanks,

Paul Floyd. www.paulfloyd.id.au (http://www.paulfloyd.id.au)

[iceman]

Hi Paul
:welcome: to IIS! I've visited your site many times.

I don't have any experience in doing what you're suggesting, but I can't see why it wouldn't work.. with the longer exposures I guess it would just be longer times between frames being updated.

I look forward to seeing whether it works for you!

[[1ponders]]

:gday: Paul

I guess by the number of responses that no one is really sure. If you are condsidering live webcasting, you might want to consider one of these

http://www.myastroshop.com.au/guides/gstar/index.htm

I'm not sure if it comes in colour though

[thestarman]

Bugger! I was hoping that someone here might have tried it. I don't own a DSI. The Meade site said it can be used for this purpose. I have asked the same question on a Yahoo Meade DSI site and got no response.

Don't hold your breath. I am going to have to save my cents before I get to buy any new gadgets. Canberra is such an expensive place to live... it will be a while.

Paul.